Sharp is a company that gained mass recognition during the 1983-2000 period where it was the shirt sponsor for Manchester United football club. A great part of this publicity is merely recognition due to advertisement but another part is also that Manchester United had perhaps their golden era during this period and were very successful. Sharp is a Japanese company that operates in the electronics industry. Among its consumer products are LCDs,home appliances and communication equipment. On a side note, Sharp is one of the top 20 semiconductor manufacturers of the world (as forecasted for 2007 by iSuppli Corporation). The Sharp Zaurus is the name of Sharp's lineup of PDAs. The Sharp Zaurus was one of the first PDAs to be made available in Asia and while it has been immensely popular in Japan since its release in 1993, it is not as popular elsewhere. This is mainly because the earlier Zaurus PDAs used proprietary Sharp OS which had Japanese UI thus restricting its usage elsewhere. On the other hand, Sharp later started selling Zaurus PDAs elsewhere with open source Linux distributions as well as OpenBSD. However, most of these distributions allow proprietary Sharp software to run on them. Accessories for the following laptop manufacturers are available at PDA Accessories: Acer, Averatec, BenQ, Canon, Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hitachi, HP, MacBooks by Apple, JVC, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nikon, Sony, Toshiba, Trigem, Viewsonic, WinBook, etc.